SlamBall coaches exchange words as hard-hitting basketball returns to forefront

SlamBall is back and perhaps higher than ever.

In case you have forgotten what the heck SlamBall is, it is a type of basketball performed with trampolines beneath the hampers with a bit of football combined it.

It was performed sporadically within the early 2000s, with enterprise ceasing on two events in america – they tried two seasons in China in 2012 and 2016 as properly. 

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Steven Julian of Wrath blocks Keith McGee of Ozone on the Cox Pavilion on July 22, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Ian Maule/Getty Photos for SlamBall)

Nevertheless, it was introduced final yr that the game would return to the USA after a 15-year absence, and its fifth inaugural season started on Friday, with video games seen on ESPN’s networks.

The sport has no foul pictures – reasonably, it is a one-on-one underneath the rim. In order one may think, feelings may run excessive reasonably rapidly.

Saturday’s major occasion between the Ozone and Wrath acquired testy. Bear in mind, they put on pads and head safety as a result of you may deal with one another and make some fairly laborious contact on slam dunks – it’s referred to as SlamBall, in spite of everything.

Donavin Byrd, entrance, of Ozone collides with Nick Parks of Wrath on the Cox Pavilion on July 22, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Ian Maule/Getty Photos for SlamBall)

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However the head coaches took exception to what went on, so Trevor Anderson of the Ozone, and James Willis of the Wrath, acquired in one another’s faces earlier than being separated by a referee and their respective gamers.

“That is SlamBall, let’s go!” one announcer mentioned.

“That is what we got here to see. Allow them to struggle, ref, allow them to go,” one other mentioned earlier than rapidly strolling it again.

A number of former school athletes are within the league this yr, together with No. 1 SlamBall draft choose Bryce Morgane, who performed basketball at Florida A&M from 2017 to 2022.

Raymond Taylor, a former working again at both Tulsa and Oklahoma State, is also within the league.

There’s additionally a reasonably well-known coach in Ken Carter – he was the top coach for all three first-place SlamBall groups, successful the league championship in 2002. However it’s possible you’ll know him higher as the topic of the 2005 movie “Coach Carter,” which highlights the coach’s real-life transfer to droop his undefeated highschool basketball group as a result of their lecturers.

Ty McGee, proper, of Wrath collides with Keenan Love of Ozone on the Cox Pavilion on July 22, 2023 in Las Vegas. (Ian Maule/Getty Photos for SlamBall)

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All of the league’s sport are at the moment going down in Las Vegas.